A Stuck theme, frozen, can't change themes or revert back
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@rylock anytime. The f4 only works when the emulationstation loading screen is on the screen. Doesnt work anytime before that.
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@edmaul69 Thanks my friend, that works well. I appreciate it.
For anyone else, The pressing f4 over and over but at the correct place brought me to the command line.
Then i used the command you suggested exactly as is. and it worked fine. Rebooted and it was back to Carbon after I changed it of course to look for Carbon. Now I got the pixel theme up and everything is great. Thanks again. -
@rylock glad to see you up and running. It sucks when you go down and cant get it running.
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@edmaul69 I followed your command, I couldn't get it to work. Can't find it. Also I didn't see where you could tab down any where. The only thing I can find is a directory without theme options
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@brettannica can you be more specific what you have a problem with and what you actually tried to do?
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@edmaul69 I installed a new comic theme and I've read some aren't setup for the raspberry pie and will freeze up immediately after it loads emulation station. You can't use the keyboard, nothing. Just blank screen. If it's loading, and I hit f4, I can get to that Linux screen, but have no idea how to change it to some other emulation theme so I won't have this problem again.
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@brettannica when you are at the commandline type this command
sudo nano /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_settings.cfgscroll down to “theme set” and change it to "carbon". Then press "ctrl + x" then "y" . Then when it puts you back to commandline type
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@edmaul69 that's where I'm getting lost. There isn't anywhere to "scroll down". It just says GNU nano 2.2.6 at the top, and bottom of the screen it says get help, write out, read file, prev page, etc. There's no where to scroll after writing all that on the retro pie page.
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@brettannica press the down arrow on your keyboard.
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@brettannica so are you saying the page itself is blank?
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@edmaul69 this is crappy quality in the video, but I'm hoping this shows you where I'm at.
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@brettannica ok you are going to need to reinstall emulationstation through retropie-setup. I am watching a movie at the moment so in about 30 minutes i can look and see what command you need to type to get to retropie setup
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@edmaul69 ok, thank you! :) I appreciate the help!
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@brettannica first off, you arent using something like berryboot or noobs are you? If so i dont know anything about that kind of stuff. If not type this to get to retropie setup to reinstall emulationstation. (Do not use nano) caps and lowercase are important.
sudo /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh -
@edmaul69 that got me into the retropie setup script. I do not believe I am using noobs or berryroot. This is all new to me. Not sure how to tell.
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@brettannica so in here go to manage packages or whatever then go into main packages, choose emulationstation and install from binary if that option is available.
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@edmaul69 I did an update from binary. Do I reboot now?
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@brettannica yes
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@edmaul69 it won't let me load emulation station now. It says "error while loading shared libraries: libbrcmEGL.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
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@brettannica did you create this card from the stock image on Retropie’s website or did you get it premade from someone?
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